{"id":65391,"date":"2025-12-19T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65391\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:58:07","slug":"scaffolding-collapses-in-pittsburghs-strip-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65391\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaffolding collapses in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Strip District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tScaffolding collapsed outside a building under construction in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Strip District, creating a mess of debris in a parking lot. According to officials, emergency responders were called to the area of Railroad and 25th Street around 10 a.m. After confirming no one was injured following a scaffolding collapse, EMS left the scene,  Pittsburgh Police said.Crews could be seen cleaning up the area, including the debris that toppled onto two vehicles.Leslie Koth, a representative from Merus, which owns the site where an apartment complex is being built, said the construction company Franjo was working when a section of the scaffolding collapsed.While it is unclear why the scaffolding collapses, the Pittsburgh area has been dealing with wind gusts up to 35 mph. A wind advisory is in effect for the highest elevations of Westmoreland and Fayette counties, where gusts could exceed 40mph. Few other details have been made available on the collapse. Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4 is reaching out to officials to learn more. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Scaffolding collapsed outside a building under construction in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Strip District, creating a mess of debris in a parking lot. <\/p>\n<p>According to officials, emergency responders were called to the area of Railroad and 25th Street around 10 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>After confirming no one was injured following a scaffolding collapse, EMS left the scene,  Pittsburgh Police said.<\/p>\n<p>Crews could be seen cleaning up the area, including the debris that toppled onto two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Koth, a representative from Merus, which owns the site where an apartment complex is being built, said the construction company Franjo was working when a section of the scaffolding collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>While it is unclear why the scaffolding collapses, the Pittsburgh area has been dealing with wind gusts up to 35 mph. A wind advisory is in effect for the highest elevations of Westmoreland and Fayette counties, where gusts could exceed 40mph. <\/p>\n<p>Few other details have been made available on the collapse. Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4 is reaching out to officials to learn more. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scaffolding collapsed outside a building under construction in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Strip District, creating a mess of debris in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34849,34850,34851,21293,34847,26422,34852,73,75,74,745,34848,34853,2731,29106],"class_list":["post-65391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-cleanup-crews","tag-construction-scaffolding","tag-debris-toppled","tag-emergency-responders","tag-ems-left-scene","tag-no-injuries","tag-parking-lot-debris","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-railroad-and-25th-street","tag-scaffolding-collapse","tag-strip-district","tag-vehicle-damage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}